Washington Color School - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:46:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Washington Color School - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 A Major Sam Gilliam Retrospective Is Coming to the Hirshhorn https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/02/07/a-major-sam-gilliam-retrospective-is-coming-to-the-hirshhorn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-major-sam-gilliam-retrospective-is-coming-to-the-hirshhorn Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:46:52 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1006449 Sam Gilliam, the renowned painter best known for his association with the Washington Color School, will take over the second floor of the Hirshhorn Museum in spring 2022. The show will be the first major American retrospective exhibit of Gilliam’s work in 15 years. Senior curator Evelyn Hankins is currently working closely with Gilliam to […]

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Why DC Needs Art Galleries https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/01/16/why-dc-needs-art-galleries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-dc-needs-art-galleries Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:00:57 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=981708 The past year was a good one for DC’s contemporary-art-gallery scene. It saw the opening of three new spaces. Ryan Dattilo, an attorney and collector from New York, launched the pop-up De Novo Gallery in Union Market, while Todd Von Ammon, a well-known dealer who previously worked at New York’s Team Gallery, debuted Von Ammon […]

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This DC Artist’s New Show Pays Homage to the Washington Color School https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/10/22/this-dc-artists-new-show-pays-homage-to-the-washington-color-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-dc-artists-new-show-pays-homage-to-the-washington-color-school Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:00:53 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=890901 In her new solo show, “On the Bright Side,” visual artist Pamela Reynolds evokes an aesthetic tradition established in DC: the Washington Color School. It makes Washington the ideal place to display the colorful collection, which opens at Touchstone Gallery on October 30, but the reference wasn’t intentional. When she began the works, she had never […]

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